Greece’s crisis was a tragedy — and a preventable one

Journalists for Bloomberg and Kathimerini had a front-row seat to the Euro crisis that devastated the peripheral nation

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By

Pierre Briançon

September 9, 2019 12:01 am GMT

Book: The Last Bluff

It has taken several crises, political dramas, many mistakes in Athens and other European capitals, and several years of ruthless fiscal austerity that tested the Greek people’s capacity to suffer to the limit.

But at least Greece seems to have found, through the trials and errors of at-times hapless governments and...